Re: MS MCE Network Issue


"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "S.Lewis" <stew1960@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Tom Scales" <tomtoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> "Kevin Childers" <kchilder@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>> Just wondering if anyone has tried implementing this in a commercial
>>>> setting? One company I work for has set this up in their research
>>>> common
>>>> area in a client server environment. They have it connected to a
>>>> projection
>>>> TV system with a satellite feed and a several of dozen movies on the
>>>> server.
>>>> None of us have worked with a set up like this before and are curious.
>>>> Another company installed it and maintains it. We just did the CAT5
>>>> (10/100) cabling. Apparently each of the clients lose connection to
>>>> the
>>>> server at least once a day. Originally the other company blamed the
>>>> cabling, but we've checked and rechecked it and it is all up to spec.
>>>> Their
>>>> system spec says that the system was designed for 10/00 CAT 5 cabling
>>>> so I
>>>> was wondering if there was some other known issue with Dells using MCE
>>>> in
>>>> such a configuration.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Kevin Childers
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>>>> Available over most messaging services as KC1111111111
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>>> I need a little more information. I run MCE in a C/S environment, over
>>> Cat5E and running gigabit.
>>>
>>> 1) Is the MCE machine connected to the projector? Can it display
>>> content properly?
>>> 2) What are the clients doing? Are they playing content through Media
>>> Player or are they all MCE machines too?
>>>
>>> One thing I quickly discovered is that one video stream, maybe two,
>>> swamps 10/100. Wireless could barely sustain one video stream. I had
>>> to go 1000BaseT to make it all work.
>>>
>>> Give me more specifics and I can help you make it work. In particular,
>>> the business need you're trying to accomplish, as you may be using the
>>> wrong tools.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
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>>
>> (Side note question to Tom: during recent hurricane/weather coverage, I
>> often kept (2) video streams coming in from different news stations on
>> the gulf coast. I'm using 10/100.......perhaps the streams you're
>> describing are different in nature or because they are being "fed" from a
>> local 'server'... ?)
>>
>>
>> Stew
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> Likely depends on the quality. If you're doing live TV, it may not be an
> issue as it is hardware-compressed, lower quality, than I have likely
> recorded.
>
> File size, don't cha know.
>

Sure, clogging the pipe as it were. Hence why I aksed the querstion. It
makes perfect sense that DVD quality video would require more bandwidth than
a (poorer quality) live video TV stream.

I still don't envy KC's dilemma; someone is pointing at simple cabling to
blame for multiple systems/devices that might be causing the connections to
dump.

Hey, Kevin, can anyone establish that 1 or 2 clients can utilize and access
the video without problem? If so, has anyone slowly ramped up the client
connections to establish perhaps where the load buries the server? (ie- at 5
systems pulling from the source server etc.?)

Also, I wonder what the source/server system resources and configuation look
like at the time it drops the clients.

Pardon me if I'm missing the point.


Stew



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